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<p>[QUOTE="Lucille.b, post: 4290982, member: 51"]Wow, great info here. Well found Bakers and Debora. Thank you everyone! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Funny that the bridge picture is missing in so many! In my copy, that page has clearly been torn out.</p><p><br /></p><p>We'll see how it does. It has a few other issues. I saw others listed quite high, but could not find any sold, so don't really know market value and I think the issues mine has will impact things.</p><p><br /></p><p>At one point in history mine sold for $2, being written in pencil in the inside cover. It looks like a used bookstore mark. Then the new owner used a stamp (kind of like a notary seal) which actually embosses the paper that shows it was part of his collection. This in 3 places and in one case it looks like it might have damaged the page, which will affect value too.</p><p><br /></p><p>It's nice we have maybe learned who the original owner was! Will definitely put something in about that in the auction. This was actually in a "free book" pile at an estate. I just grabbed it because it looked interesting. Planning to list at $24.99 in a 10 day auction. Hope someone (or ideally more than one person) is interested.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lucille.b, post: 4290982, member: 51"]Wow, great info here. Well found Bakers and Debora. Thank you everyone! :) Funny that the bridge picture is missing in so many! In my copy, that page has clearly been torn out. We'll see how it does. It has a few other issues. I saw others listed quite high, but could not find any sold, so don't really know market value and I think the issues mine has will impact things. At one point in history mine sold for $2, being written in pencil in the inside cover. It looks like a used bookstore mark. Then the new owner used a stamp (kind of like a notary seal) which actually embosses the paper that shows it was part of his collection. This in 3 places and in one case it looks like it might have damaged the page, which will affect value too. It's nice we have maybe learned who the original owner was! Will definitely put something in about that in the auction. This was actually in a "free book" pile at an estate. I just grabbed it because it looked interesting. Planning to list at $24.99 in a 10 day auction. Hope someone (or ideally more than one person) is interested.[/QUOTE]
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